Best known today as a fine composer, the twelfth-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen was also a religious leader and visionary, a poet, naturalist and writer of medical treatises. Despite her...
Thomas Bradshaw and Tonie Swann are experiencing the classic symptoms of marriage in its middle years: comfortable house, happy-enough daughter and an eerie sense that life might be happening...
Over the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she...
From the internationally-renowned author of }The Beach{ comes a gripping mystery and stylistic tour de force that delves into the subconscious mind, with brilliantly disturbing results.
Out of print for several years, a comprehensive volume of Lou Reed's lyrics with brand new introductions, now updated in a new text design to include the lyrics from his final album with...
In a sparkling, fast-paced narrative, Shakespeare's Kings bronicles the turbulent events that inspired Shakespeare's history plays, from Edward III to Richard III.
Mit der australischen Romanautorin Elizabeth Costello hat J. M. Coetzee eine irritierend-humane, moralische und kompromißlose Figur geschaffen. Acht essayistische Erzählungen zeigen die alte Dame...
Guskin is an "acting doctor" whose clients include Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, James Gandolfini, Bridget Fonda, and dozens more. Now Guskin reveals the insights and techniques that have...
The play premiered at the Finborough Theatre, London, in February 2018 to coincide with the seventieth anniversaries of both the Nakba or 'catastrophe' - the mass dispossession of the...
The astonishing lost story of Roman Ungern von Sternberg, the insane Baltic aristocrat who conquered Mongolia in 1920 and led a cavalry army against the Bolsheviks in Moscow.
Der Zeithistoriker Götz Aly weist in diesem Buch die Kontinuität deutscher Denkmuster im 20. Jahrhundert nach. Er deckt am Beispiel ausgewählter Lebensläufe einen bestimmten Typus des deutschen...
A chance meeting around a safari campfire on the banks of the Mupamadazi River leads to the grand tale of African adventure żeby Peter Capstick, the foremost hunting author of our time. Wally...
Nelson Handwriting is a widely used handwriting scheme in schools throughout the UK. It provides a clear, practical framework for implementing and developing a whole school handwriting policy. The...
Norman Gash's magnificent two-volume life of Sir Robert Peel - "Mr Secretary Peel" (1961) and "Sir Robert Peel" (1972) - is the kanon work on the great statesman, and is widely...
One man's obsession with the mysterious life of a silent film star takes him on a journey into a shadow-world of lies, illusions, and unexpected love. After losing his wife and young sons in a...
Louise would give anything - anything - for a good night's sleep. Forget the girls running errant in the garden and bothering the neighbours. Forget her husband who seems oblivious to it all....
"Gold in the Water" is the highly acclaimed and mesmerizing tale about the remarkable two-year journey an elite team of swimmers takes to the Olympic Games. Mullen creates a fascinating...
First published in 1913, Holbrook Jackson's "The Eighteen Nineties" is without doubt the authoritative work on the raffish, scandalous and tempestuous "Yellow Nineties" of...
Alsace 1944: Mathilde follows the soldier she loves home to Morocco. Suffocated żeby the climate, loneliness, and a mistrust of foreigners, she grows restless. Relations between settlers and...
In a time of endless chaos and bloodshed, when the only law was the law of the sword, a peasant boy named Hideyoshi dreamed of becoming a samurai. Despite his lack of strength and size, he learned...
A distinguished compilation of two classic fantasy novels, "Soldier of the Mist "and "Soldier of Arete," in one volume This omnibus of two acclaimed novels is the story of Latro, a...
Roberto Bolaño hat die Literatur verändert - und erzählt uns von einer aus den Fugen geratenen Welt. Melancholische Pornostars, durchgedrehte Dichter, mystische Zahnärzte und Fußballer mit einem...